Sina Mansour L.

Sina Mansour L.

Network science enthusiast admiring the brain 🧠,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Computational Brain Imaging Group, National University of Singapore, and
MNC Systems lab,
The University of Melbourne

Hello World!

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In my first blog post ever, I decided to provide a short description of how I prepared this website to be served over Github pages.

Professional website template

Like many, I had a very limited time and could not afford to spend much time on creating a fully functional professional website from scratch. Hence I decided to look for a website template that is suited to my needs, i.e. an academic website. I was also looking for a low-maintenance hosting service. I basically did not want to have to worry about getting a domain and a server to host my website on. I was able to find a fast solution that suited my needs thanks to Jekyll and Github pages.

If you’re also interested in building a personal academic website in a similar fashion this solution may suit you.

Now you would still need to know a little bit about web development to be able to get everything up and running. However, compared to a web development from scratch this is going to be way faster.

Here are the steps that I took:

  • I first forked this fantastic academic website template. Please note that a more thorough instruction on how to use the template has been provided in the template’s git repository. This blog post is just a short summary of what I did which could act as a teaser for you to go ahead and read their carefully written instrucions.
  • I then cloned the repository locally to be able to edit the content and add what I want to the website.
  • I then started changing the files as instructed by the template’s instructions. You could also take this one step further and build extra features into the existing template if you like.
  • In order to serve the website using github pages, you would need to rename the repository to “[your GitHub username].github.io” and enable Github pages from the settings.
  • Furthermore, in order to test the changes I make to the website locally and make a bunch of modifications together and push in a single commit, I installed Jekyll and Bundle locally. This made development of the website much easier.

That’s all! Believe me it’s nearly as simple as that!

I hope you enjoy building your website with academicpages’ academic website template too.